Simon often yelled at night, he said that there are other children in this house. In order to make Simon sleep at ease, Laura asked him to close his eyes, pick up the alarm clock on the bedside table and aim at the full moon outside the window, and reflect the light to the lighthouse not far away. When Simon opened his eyes again, he was pleasantly surprised. Seeing the light from the long-abandoned lighthouse, Laura told him that the lighthouse was lit to protect the children.
Laura took Simon to the beach to pick up shells. Simon entered a cave that appeared due to low tide. When Laura found him, Simon was talking to himself in the depths of the cave. He told Laura that he knew another name. A new friend named Thomas, and asked Laura if he could let Thomas come as a guest at home, Laura readily agreed, but when she raised her torch to the cave, there was no one inside, and there was no Thomas as Simon said.
On the way home, Simon sprinkled shells all the way, saying it was a mark for Thomas to find their home. Laura took Carlos's shoulder and joked that Simon had met new friends again. Carlos said with a smile, oh, we don't have so many rooms for these children to live in. For them, Simon's so-called partners were all imaginary by himself. As long as Simon went to school and met new friends, he would forget all this.
The next day an old social worker named Bennina came to Laura's house, hoping to help here, Laura was planning to reopen the orphanage. In order to be able to stay, Ben Nina took out a copy of Simon's personal information, which was disgusted by Laura and ordered to evict her. That night, Bennina sneaked up in an abandoned storage room at Laura's house with a shovel, and fled in panic when she was spotted by Laura.
Simon told Laura that his new friends like to play a game. They will take away your beloved things and leave clues for you to find them. Once you find them, you can make a wish. Simon told Laura that his favorite thing was a few gold coins he had picked up, which had turned into Simon's baby teeth when he opened the box. "The game has already started, Mom, where did you put my baby teeth before?" Laura entered the game of finding treasures together with Simon. Gold coins—deciduous teeth—sand—sewing box—decorative leaves— -Doll set-the key to the kitchen drawer. Locked in the drawer is a copy of Simon's personal data, which records that Simon is an HIV-infected person, and he is adopted by Laura. Holding these materials, Simon shouted at Laura angrily: "You are a liar!" Carlos thought it was Simon who opened the drawer and didn't dare to admit it, so he made up this game to defend himself.
At a party, Simon wanted Laura to see Thomas’ cabin, but Laura refused. An angry Simon locked Laura in the bathroom, and when everyone opened the door lock, Simon had disappeared.
Six months later, the police still had no clues, and some unusual events at home made Laura lose confidence in the police. She invited psychics to come to the house to look for the "ghosts." This combination of modern science and superstition made Laura completely believe that there were ghosts of children in the house, and Carlos and the police psychologist believed that they were just monks.
When Laura was looking for some clues that seemed to be left by "little ghosts", she found the brooch that Benina had dropped here in the abandoned hut. Following the clues, she found five sacks containing five children’s Bones, they were Laura’s childhood friends, the children who lived in this orphanage thirty years ago.
Laura felt that Bennina must know Simon's whereabouts, and went to find her with Carlos. When they accidentally ran into Bennina on the street, before they had time to ask a few words, Bennina crashed and died in front of them. Losing this important clue, Laura looked discouraged. Carlos wanted to move out of this house, but Laura refused. She firmly believed that she would be able to find Simon within a two-day period.
Laura rearranged the room by herself as it did thirty years ago, put on the uniform of the teacher of the orphanage, and made a dinner that the children used to eat. She wanted to induce the children to find Simon, but Laura’s hard work No gain. When she lay down in front of the cabinet in despair and anger, and played the stump knocking game that she used to play with her friends when she was a child, five children appeared in the dark.
While chasing the children, Laura entered the storage room under the stairs and used the door handle found in the treasure hunt to open the door of the dark room. To her surprise, it was an underground passage. Laura carefully followed the steps into the basement, which turned out to be Thomas' cabin. Seeing Simon hiding in the little bed sleeping, Laura ran over in surprise, picking him up and kissing. Suddenly, the light went out and then turned on again. Simon, who was smiling at her in Laura's arms, was lying on the floor at this moment, and there was silence around him. This is the real reality. Simon had died six months ago. NS. After a flashback, Laura wept bitterly, it was she who killed Simon indirectly.
Simon, who disappeared six months ago, entered Thomas’ hut. At that time, Laura had opened the storage room under the stairs and pulled back the iron rod that fell on the ground. Cannot open the door from the inside. Although Laura heard some movement in the night, she mistakenly thought it was a ghost and didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, it was the sound of Simon struggling to smash the door.
Desperate Laura sat in front of the window holding Simon's body and took a bottle of sleeping pills. The lighthouse outside the window lit up again, and a voice rang in Laura's ear, "You have found Simon, now you can make a wish." Laura raised her head and blurted out without hesitation, "I want Simon to resurrect." The voice just fell off. , Simon broke free from Laura's arms and stood up. Each of the five small beds in the room sat with a child. They were Laura's childhood friends and the children who were killed by Bennina. Their eyes were panic, lonely, sad, and painful. Simon hugged Laura and said, "Mom, stay and take care of us all." Laura nodded, and the children surrounded Laura excitedly and called her name. They stayed in the dark for too long, too long. NS.
Yes, Laura is dead, not Simon is resurrected. As a horror movie, this ending is warm and touching. Laura's crazy maternal love overcomes reason, and she has to accompany her children to death.
In front of the orphanage, there is an extra stone tablet with the words "In Memory of Laura and Simon" and the names of five other children. Carlos offered a flower to the stele and walked into his former home with the sentimental memories. Carlos accidentally found a necklace on the floor. This was the amulet he gave to Laura at the time. He picked up the necklace and faced the slowly opening door in front of him with a smile.
After waiting for a month, I finally came to this Spanish psychological horror film "Orphanage". Under the slogan of psychological horror, there are very few scenes that make people feel nervous. Personally, as a horror film, it lacks the element of horror, and as a suspense film, it lacks enough suspense to attract people.
The most exciting place I personally think is the director's lens, which is almost a pair of living eyes. The shots of Laura in every corner of the house look like someone is peeping at her in the dark. The viewer's eyes don't seem to follow the camera, but look for Laura through another pair of eyes. This is also the highlight of horror movies.
At the beginning of the film, seven-year-old Laura and five partners play games in the yard, which is a foreshadowing for the development of the following story. "One, two, three, knock on the stump.", it's actually the "one, two, three, wooden people"
that we played when we were young. The sun was shining, and the yard and the children were shining. There was no haze here, only their joyful laughter. .
Watching this movie also reminded me of several other horror movies. The son of the female teacher in South Korea's "Teacher's Favor" was born deformed like Thomas, so he was put on a mask and locked in the basement without seeing the sun. He died unexpectedly because of the children's jokes. Ben Nina in "The Orphanage" was once a teacher in the orphanage and killed five other children because of the death of her son Thomas.
In the American "Small Cry", the mother played by Nicol Kidman has been looking for ghosts in the house that might harm her children. It was only at the end that they were the real ghosts and belonged to this house. Intruder.
In Japan's "Ghost Water Severe Bell", the mother played by Hitomi Kuroki chose the lonely ghost child in the end and gave up her biological daughter in this world.
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